From A. R. Wallace 8 March [1868]
Summary
On critical exchanges at the Linnean Society on natural selection and mimicry.
Roland Trimen’s paper on South African mimetic butterflies ["On some remarkable mimetic resemblances among African butterflies", Trans. Linn. Soc. Lond. 26 (1870): 497–523; read 5 Mar 1868].
Author: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 8 Mar [1868] |
Classmark: | DAR 106: B51–2 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5996 |
From Henry Doubleday 8 March 1868
Summary
Proportion of sexes in Lepidoptera.
Sexual preference.
Role of coloration [see Descent 1: 311–12].
Author: | Henry Doubleday |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 8 Mar 1868 |
Classmark: | DAR 85: B47–8 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5997 |
From W. S. Dallas 8 March 1868
Summary
Expresses his pleasure at the opportunity of meeting CD.
Author: | William Sweetland Dallas |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 8 Mar 1868 |
Classmark: | DAR 162: 18 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5998 |
letter | (3) |
Dallas, W. S. | (1) |
Doubleday, Henry | (1) |
Wallace, A. R. | (1) |
Darwin, C. R. | (3) |
Darwin, C. R. | (3) |
Dallas, W. S. | (1) |
Doubleday, Henry | (1) |
Wallace, A. R. | (1) |
4.10 'Hornet' caricature of Darwin
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< Back to Introduction Caricatures of Darwin that depicted him as a semi-ape are numerous and well known, but they marked a specific historical moment. Most date from the period following the publication of Descent of Man in 1871-2, extending through…
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- … and bibliography The Hornet , 5:115 (22 March 1871), p. 308 and following plate. [James Duncan …
The Mount, Shrewsbury
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Letters from home
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- … Darwin writes in preparation for the voyage, and his father and sisters write with news from home …
3.11 Edwards, in Illustrated London News
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< Back to Introduction A photograph of Darwin by Ernest Edwards, showing him in three-quarter view to the left, must have been taken at the same session as the profile published in Men of Eminence in 1866. The baggy sleeve of Darwin’s coat looks…
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- … on p. 243. Harper’s Weekly , 15:745 (8 April 1871), p. 308, wood engraving with the same caption, …